You may have noticed recently that the Battle.net app has acquired, among other things, a chat history, with messages being stored for 28 days, and emoji support (for the full change log click on what's new, found in the drop down by the Blizzard logo, at the top left of the screen). Hot on the heels of these changes has been the announcement of the Blizzard Battle.net App. A snippet of the announcement, and a link to the full announcement, can be found in the Warcraft segment of the newsletter.

With this app you will now be able to add new friends on the go, talk to your friends whenever you want, even if they're in other guilds, and quickly check what games your friends are playing. The article also says you can use QR codes. I don't know about anyone else, but I never got the hang of those personally.

On your friends page you will find in the top right corner the little Add Friends symbol. This takes you to the options to either add someone's BattleTag, or add by code. Selecting Add by Code then gives the option to either scan your friend's code, or display your own. You will also be given friend suggestions based on who else you have friended.

In the middle tab is your message history; nothing much to say there. On the right is a panel with the ability to adjust your status, control your notifications, and under Accessibility is a text-to-speech option.

With all this newness, it is a good time to remind you to be courteous to your friends. If they have the Busy symbol up, respect it. Don't expect your friends to drop everything just to join you. We would also like to remind our members that this does not necessarily mean our staff will be faster to respond to applications to our guild. All of our staff and our members have real lives, so be respectful of their availability.

The Brewfest has begun in WoW and so has A3's Donation Drive for Brewfest pets! Sadly, there were no new goodies for this year's festivities. Brewfest donation drive pets include: Stout Alemental. The A3 Brewfest Donation Drive also includes some non-event brew-themed pets so that members can participate if they don't have the time to farm a ton of currency. Bonus donation drive pets include: Skunky Alemental, Lil' Leftovers, and Enchanted Cauldron.

Tiers for this donation drive are 0, 10 and 20. Members who contribute at least two pets to the drive will also have the option of choosing a Ghost Shark as their prize!

Although you are welcome to send us Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm and Wolpertinger pets from Brewfest, they are not part of the donation drive. We are very well stocked on Pachyderms and overstocked on Wolpertingers.

Above all else... A3 loves collecting pets! Collection doesn't just stop at pets that can be traded and adopted though - there are a few worlds' worth of wild pets out there waiting for collectors, too! A few of us would like to offer our love of hunting wild pets to A3 members to help them also round out their wild pet needs.

Each week (sometimes a few times each week!) we will comb zones to help members find the wild pets they are still after. We will turn a zone upside-down and inside-out looking for your pet(s) and message you once we've found them. You will then come and capture it! If you would like to take advantage of this service, but aren't available during our typical times, please don't hesitate to contact us and ask about alternative days and times.

Do you want to help supply pets for adoption that A3 needs? We have a Pet Suppliers thread where members can sign up to sponsor certain pets they are willing to supply. When the supply of certain pets starts to run low or we have an upcoming project where we’ll need more of a certain pet – we’ll send out a notification about that pet to our suppliers! There is no guess work and no 24/7 farming because we’ll let you know when we’re in need of the pets.

There are no quotas to meet when supplying the pets that you signed up for. You can provide whatever amount you are comfortable with.

New supply options were recently added! New options include common vendor and non-Legion pets.

If you've ever wanted to see what games your friends are playing while you’re headed home on the bus, or quickly add a new friend you've met out on the town, now you can with the Blizzard Battle.net mobile app. Available for iOS and Android, the Blizzard Battle.net mobile app brings social features from the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app to your phone.

The Blizzard Battle.net mobile app is starting to roll out now globally on the App Store and Google Play Store—head over now to download, and check back shortly if it’s not available in your region.

The yearly Harvest Festival is now underway in Azeroth. This is a solemn time when the Alliance honors Uther the Lightbringer by lighting a candle at his tomb in the Western Plaguelands, while members of the Horde show their respect to Grommash Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the base of the Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.

To commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help friends and allies, feasts are also held outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar in honor of these fallen heroes.

When: September 29–October 6
Where: Outside of Ironforge and Orgrimmar

Please join me in welcoming Ythisens to the North American World of Warcraft Community Team!

Ythisens comes to us with over a decade spent in Azeroth across multiple characters (though he’s always been drawn to his Paladin), and he would like you to know that he firmly believes Garrosh did nothing wrong.

Aside from actively supporting Horde genocide, Ythisens will be joining me here on the forums in his day-to-day, as well as working on collecting player feedback and helping get that to the development team.

Super happy to have another Blue here on the forums as we march towards the stronghold of the Legion!

Join us on Facebook! The A3 Facebook group is the perfect place to socialize with your fellow A3ers. Post and share anything you like here, WoW-related or otherwise. Please remember to keep it reasonably clean!

Follow us on Twitter! Twitter is our main social media resource. It is to post info about events, giveaways, and updates. We share and retweet posts from our members as well. We LOVE to see your achievements, new pets, screenshots and selfies! If you would like to see your WoW-related activities included in a future newsletter you can tag us in your World of Warcraft-related tweets so we can share them with the community! @A3pets.

A3 is always looking for new and interesting ways to connect with its members. One of our greatest hurdles, though, is connecting members to each other. With everyone playing on different servers, different factions, and the limitations of the friends list – many of you have probably never had a chance to connect. We hope to use the Discord App to help solve that!

The major perk of an app like Discord is that communication is live. Meaning – you can see it on the fly (assuming you are logged in). This will be an advantage over the forum or twitter where you need to check in throughout the day. It will be especially helpful with organizing groups, sharing rare spawn information with others, or just getting to know your fellow A3ers!

Did you know that A3 has bills? It’s true! A3 has monthly and yearly bills related to the cost of operating the Agency. Operating costs are the costs required to run the community – these do not include the costs of sponsoring giveaways.

A3 is a volunteer operated project and we need the help of our members to keep the site online. Currently, about 4% of our members contribute to the to these operating costs and around 1% have contributed more than once.

A few spare dollars here and there can go a long way! Donations are accepted through PayPal and Patreon.